Daniel Grafton Hill III OC OOnt (November 23, 1923 – June 26, 2003) was an American-Canadian sociologist, civil servant, human rights specialist, and Black Canadian historian.
An American born in Missouri and raised in the western United States, Hill went to Canada for graduate work in sociology at University of Toronto, and decided to settle there.
Daniel Grafton Hill III was born November 23, 1923 in Independence, Missouri.
[1] His father, born in Washington, DC, and paternal grandfather were both university-educated men who became ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was a public school teacher before 1937, when she was the first black person to be appointed as an officer in the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland.
While in the capital, he met his future wife, Donna Mae Bender (1928–2018), a white former Senate staffer and civil rights activist from Oak Park, Illinois.
Hill co-founded the Ontario Black History Society with his wife Donna and other friends.